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Raid 5 Help

Here's the story, last week was remote desktoped into my server and was working on it, all of a sudden my screen locked and terminated my session, logged in a little bit later with an unexpected restart error. No biggie, went to launch something and it didn't go, opened up disk management reactivated my RAID 5, but 1 disk of 4 was "missing" okay, that's fine, data still works.... so i replaced the bad drive... Okay same model/size etc... problem is... it now shows 5 disks.... the missing is still attached to the RAID 5 volume, did some reading.. only way to remove a disk is to remove the volume... point of no return.... upon deleting the volume, all the drives volumes are deleted... so I delete the "missing" disk. recreate the volume as RAID 5 and tell it not to format.... well needless to say as I try to access the logical drive... it says it's not formated... didn't format, I've run Get back data NTFS and it sees all the data... problem is that most of it is corrupt when I try to restore it.... pretty much everything "recovered" is unusable... Any ideas on how I can get the data back... I've read some articles that talk about finding the backup boot partition to restore it the the primary location.